London, June 12.
In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Trevelyan Thomson, Liberal member for Middlesbrough, who asked what steps the Government were taking to protect the lives and interests of British subjects and traders in China in view of the very serious situation outside the area of the Treaty Ports, Mr. Ronald MeNeill, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that the steps taken since the discontinuance of the operations against the brigands were proceeding fairly satisfactori-
The British Minister in Peking had, been authorized to press for a railway police force, with greater foreign control over rail-Way revenues, to ensure that the railway police will be properly paid, and he had been instructed_to consult his colleagues with a view to joint action by all the Powers concerned. The British Government had no reason, Mr. McNeill declared, to attribute bad faith to the Government of Peking.—Rentey.
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